And if you drive you enough, you see the 3-4-5 nose to bumper car accidents quite often. The number of people who tailgate, who don't give way, who deliberately block you when you try to change lanes, it's insane and yet it's considered normal, at least here in Melbourne. I only bring them up as a comparison because their death toll per capita is similar or lower than ours, and yet they do not have the same kind of rigid enforcement of speed that we do. For Europeans, it's probably more along the lines of 'don't drive like an idiot'. If it were true, we'd all be statistics by now.įor most people in Australia, the definition of safety is 'follow the speed limit'. Being 5kph over the speed limit is not dangerous, and it certainly isn't the same as having a few drinks in your system as they (TAC) so flagrantly claim.

Now to the stuff that we might disagree on.īeing 3% over the speed limit is not dangerous. That excessive speeding is dangerous and something should be and has been done about it. Let's start with what we can hopefully agree on. Ever spoken to any Europeans who come over here on a driving holiday and comment on how absurdly strict our driving laws are?

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